#18638
Jimmy-T
Keymaster


    @Kangaroo
    said:

    Second, any one owner may submit a motion for the next GM.

    Why have you underlined and bolded “one”?  What is the significance?

    I take a much firmer line than JT on whether anybody is entitled to re-word the motion as submitted. 

    I don’t disagree that the law is clear that the wording of the item on the agenda must take the form of words expressed in the notice sent by the owner concerned. However, a good strata manager or secretary will come back to the EC with suggestions if their motions’ intent is not well expressed.

    In this case the secretary should not be rewriting motions, as you say, without the approval of the EC.  If the motion has been submitted by an ordinary owner, the strata manager should not be touching it at all.

    However it’s not just the wording of the motions but their position in the batting order, which is decided by the secretary. 

    For instance, I raised a motion at our last AGM that someone else chair the meeting, specifically to stop our chairman doing his annual one-man show that no-one is allowed to interrupt.  The secretary obediently put my motion second so that the chairman had his moment in the spotlight, rendering my motion irrelevant.

     

     

     

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